Performing presence: Between the live and the simulated proposes that
the advent of new media forms, and the increasing integration of
contemporary performance and media, has generated new engagements,
practices and understandings of presence.
Addressing new media art and performance, multi-media theatre, video
installation, mixed reality environments and locative arts, the book
presents case studies of work by Lynn Hershman Leeson, Paul Sermon, Gary
Hill, Tony Oursler, The Builders Association and Blast Theory, as well
as analyses of a series of related experiments created for CAVE, an
immersive virtual reality environment. Performing presence combines
extensive analysis, and extracts from interviews with the artists, as
well as the documentation of elements of work and working processes, in
order to provide specific insight into these engagements with
contemporary practices and concepts presence.
This book will be of interest to students, researchers and practitioners
of theatre and performance, contemporary art, media, new media and
technology.